The type of software used by corporations to house source code, targeted by criminals in the recent attacks on Google and others, is generally weak in security protection, McAfee researchers said on Wednesday.
McAfee analysed a commonly used software for housing intellectual property called Perforce and released its findings during a session at the RSA security conference in San Francisco.
The company helped make the discovery that a hole in Internet Explorer 6 was exploited in at least some of the recent attacks on US firms, and named the attacks 'Operation Aurora' after the malware used.
Now McAfee is turning its attention to what attackers would be capable of doing once they are inside an organisation.
For more on this story, see McAfee: Source code is easy target within corporations on CNET News.
